Animal Control Angels?

They say that there is a person out there for every man, and I put that forward to dogs.  No matter how loony, how stiff, how laid back, etc... there is a dog out there just waiting to share your life with you.


  Today, we came together to give those poor critters in Animal Control their shot in the sun and their moment to shine.  
  One of the people who came in to the store, on their normal shopping runs and saw the dogs by chance, told me they were surprised by the dogs.  "I expected a batch of train wrecks", he said to me.
  I couldn't help but to ask him why he thought that.
  "Well, they were strays, thrown away....".  He seemed to run out of steam, sort of realizing what he was saying.  But, he did sort of have a point, even if he was crass enough to voice it.  These were dogs no one wanted.
          We had a group of great dogs!  I would have been proud to have any of these animals!  The dog I was handling today was a pit bull mix.  She wanted so much to play.  I think she was a bit ticked at me that I wouldn't put her with the other dogs.  She knew how to sit and stay, she walked great on the leash - just needed a few reminders about not pulling. 
  At the end of the day, five of the dogs had to go back to the Animal Control.  The dogs had a great time, saw lots of new people, got treats and scratches.  I was sad to see them have to go back, but I was glad that two found homes.
  I told that man, who was so surprised that these are just dogs:  "All a dog wants is to be loved and to love".  

  Interesting thing:  I realized that the way people view dogs is a lot like the way they view people, too.  

Update!

Hello Everyone!
  I have such great news!!!  The little pup that I pictured last week was adopted!  The one couple that braved the driving snow and horrible roads because they wanted a dog last week did adopt her.  I think she is in a good home, if I can be so hopeful.  They seemed like nice people in our short conversation, and the foster to the pup thought so as well.  I'm so happy for that little puppy.

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The Horror of Cold Hearts

Hello My Friends;

  This little dear is our newest addition at the rescue organization.  She is 5-weeks old, which is too young to be separated from her mother, and was rescued from a snow bank on Saturday 1/26.  Yes, my friends - in Michigan, in January, some jerk threw out this little baby.

  I want to hurt someone.

  Why don't people understand that there are other ways?  There are no less than three volunteer rescue organizations in this county, not counting the Humane Society and Animal Control.  Further, most who owns a pet would have taken this puppy in rather than see it die in the cold.  But, some heartless wonder decided to simply throw it in the cold.

  But, the good news:  We had two applications put in on her today.  In a very short amount of time, this baby will be in a home, with people who love her and who she can love.    

  I read a comment today about someone talking about how certain people are a perversion, bringing about the sure judgement of an angry god.  Do you want to know my opinion?  It isn't about who you love, only that you love.  Only that you care.  Only that the hope of life lives in your heart.  Only that you wouldn't throw a baby in the snow to die.  I think that's what God wants from us.

Obviously now in a better place!

'Gay' Dog Spared the Gas Chamber

A dog in Tennessee whose owner dumped it at a shelter because he thought it was gay was saved from euthanasia at the last minute by a kindhearted animal lover.

The dog was left with a rabies control shelter in Jackson, Tenn., this week "not because he's mean or tears things up… But because his owner says he's gay!" the group Jackson TN Euthanasia, which tries to find homes for dogs in kill-shelters, posted on its Facebook page on Wednesday.

"He hunched another male dog so his owner threw him away because he refuses to have a 'gay' dog!" the group wrote in a post that went viral, leading to thousands of comments online and hundreds of people calling the shelter.

One of those callers was Stephanie Fryns, a veterinary tech from Jackson, who rescued the bulldog-mix. She named him Elton.

Fryns, who owns four dogs, told ABCNews.com that she saw Elton on an adoption website and had made plans to rescue him even before his story went viral.

Fryns said the pooch weighed 50 pounds, and "was pretty friendly so far. He's pretty scared of everything, which is understandable. But he loved the car ride."

She said bulldog and bull-mixes routinely showed up in the area's shelters because of a widespread and illicit interest in dog fighting.

Elton, she said, had some redness on his ears but it was impossible to say if they were bites from other fighting dogs. She doubted he had been fought routinely because he was "submissive."

Homosexual behavior has been recorded in more than 1,000 different animal species, but it is likely that Elton was simply displaying typical dominance behavior when mounting another male dog, rather than being gay.

Pairs of male penguins nesting together to raise an egg have made headlines at zoos in Canada, Denmark and Spain. A study of Alaskan albatrosses in 2010 found that most of the nesting couples on one island consisted of female pairs.

There are plenty of mammals, including giraffes, dolphins and bonobos, an ape species closely related to chimps and humans, that have gay sex for pleasure, according to the book "Biological Exuberance" by Bruce Baghemi.

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